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Members of the August Twenty-One Movement and Tindig Pilipinas hold a protest at the EDSA Shrine in Quezon City on Oct. 10, 2025. ATOM - August Twenty-One Movement Facebook page

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1760240496604558679173_829270500053935_5458360624312901516_n.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Members of the August Twenty-One Movement and Tindig Pilipinas hold a protest at the EDSA Shrine in Quezon City on Oct. 10, 2025. ATOM - August Twenty-One Movement Facebook page</span></span></span></div><p>MANILA — Protests against corruption in flood control projects will continue until the public is satisfied that ongoing investigations will lead to accountability, an organizer said Sunday.</p><p>Speaking to DZMM Teleradyo, Tindig Pilipinas co-convenor Kiko Aquino Dee said groups will hold pocket protests every Friday “as long as there is no significant progress” in probes by the Independent Commission for Infrastructure.</p><p>The House of Representatives has ended its hearings into the controversy in deference to the ICI, which President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. created to investigate the issue.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/10/10/students-in-10-pup-campuses-walk-out-to-protest-corruption-1822"><strong>Students in 10 PUP campuses walk out to protest corruption<br/></strong></a></div><p>The inquiry at the Senate has stalled after a leadership change prompted by senators’ “disappointment” over how Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo “Ping” Lacson had steered the Blue Ribbon Committee.</p><p>“Wala pang cases filed, wala pa tayong nakikitang nakukulong three weeks after September 21,” Dee said, referring to the massive protests in Manila and outside the capital.</p><p>“Ilang buwan na since nabanggit ang flood control na ito.”</p><p>(There have been no cases filed, nobody has been arrested three weeks after September 21. It has been months since the issue of flood control projects first came up)</p><script data-wid="auto" type="text/javascript" src="https://content.viralize.tv/display/?zid=AAFz8gWM8iRADsJr&amp;cid=ABmkDcSAtgIGI59Q"></script><p>“I would understand kung marami sa atin ay hindi satisfied,” he also said.</p><p>(I would understand if many of us aren’t satisfied with the developments) </p><p>Dee, who joined an August Twenty-One Movement protest walk at UP Diliman on Sunday, said he hopes the ICI will be truly independent, adding the panel should be more open to the public about its proceedings.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/10/10/pnp-says-ready-to-secure-weekly-anti-corruption-protests-0858"><strong>PNP says ready to secure weekly anti-corruption protests<br/></strong></a></div><p>The ICI has so far stood firm against calls to livestream its hearings, saying it wants to insulate proceedings from partisan politics.</p><p>&quot;Kaya nga binuo ang ICI dahil sa kagustuhan ng publiko na malaman ang buong katotohanan, tapos isisikreto lang nila ang pagdinig. Para naman tayong naglolokohan,&quot; <a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/10/11/de-lima-urges-ici-to-open-infra-scandal-probe-to-public-1722">Mamamayang Liberal Party-list Rep. Leila De Lima</a> said Saturday.</p><p>(The ICI was formed precisely because the people want to know the truth but they hold their hearings behind closed doors. It feels like we&#x27;re just fooling each other)</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HdoXZhCtl8M?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div>

<p>“Wala pang cases filed, wala pa tayong nakikitang nakukulong three weeks after September 21,” Tindig Pilipinas co-convenor Kiko Aquino Dee said.</p>

“Wala pang cases filed, wala pa tayong nakikitang nakukulong three weeks after September 21,” Tindig Pilipinas co-convenor Kiko Aquino Dee said.

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Protests to go on until people see progress in flood control probe — Tindig Pilipinas

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Published October 12, 2025 01:35 PM PHT

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